The Psalms of Children : Their Songs and Laments : Understanding & Healing the Scars on the Souls of Children

The Psalms of Children contains a foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, and was selected Winner of the 1996 Merit of Excellence Award from International University.

Dr Anderson uses compassion and a distinct literary style to share her unique concept of the roots and trans-generational nature of violence, addressing two major social issues; violence among children and the apparent deadening of the human soul. In fact, she invites nothing less than a radical change in how we perceive health of body, mind and soul and the dysfunctions of its absence, a change that must engage our awareness of energy and the controlling power of its forebears in memory and consciousness. The implications for the prevention, amelioration and management of these many disorders - particularly those that result in soul injury and violence - is ground breaking.

It is in this regard that her polemic takes on an unprecedented aura of light and hope, for by changing the quality of soul energy, it is possible to to change its felt quality and therefore the consequences of negative memories and injured consciousness. Within this context, because the locks and keys of neural transmission and the storehouses of memory and consciousness in children are developmentally susceptible to change, she compellingly describes how and why the healing of the brokenness of humanity must begin with children and yes, even pre-conceptionally. For what happens at birth and in the first few years of life is built upon the foundations laid by the quality of energy conveyed at conception and experienced during intra-uterine development. It is from these many storied domains, built into our memories and consciousness, that the belief systems and thus the feelings and behavior of our adult lives derive. Thus, if we are to moderate the trauma of world-wide violence, we must begin to do so with children and their pre-fetal beginnings.

Intertwining Science and Spirituality in a manner both unique and enthralling, Dr Anderson offers as has never been done before - simple and grounded ways in which children of today and their souls can be so nurtured that love may push hate aside, hope replace despair, and faith dislodge disconnectedness. Additionally, if so done, it is entirely possible that within a generation or two the adults of those times will be soulfully equipped to make of God's world a less hostile and violent , as well as a more loving place for all creation.